Talking Internships and Managing Interns with Mary Baird-Wilcock

Mary Baird-Wilcock is an experienced entrepreneur in the meetings industry. She has lead a successful events company, The Simplifiers, and has now taken her years of experience to start the Apprentice Program. She knows how to make internships successful for the intern and the hiring company, and is launching an amazing new offering.

In this episode Mary talks about her company and shares her passion for interns managed the “right” way. We also hear her best advice for those wanting to start their own business.

The Apprentice Program is a crowdsourced social network that helps small business entrepreneurs all over the globe better train their interns by giving them access to tap into a global network of mentors, training videos, eLearning tools and resources and more to simplify new hire training.

They are the UBER of intern training in the events industry and beyond.

Her company is running a Kickstarter right now to fund the next phase of the software build-out. They have raised $6569, 65% funded towards our 10k USD goal, 69 backers and only 8 days left to go.